family chronicles
lifestyle based experience
1. THE CONCEPT
The concept for this 60 minute family experience is to capture the essence of your family’s unique story through candid moments. My goal is to create a visual narrative that reflects the warmth, love and dynamic within the family, showcasing both the big and small moments that make up your daily life.
2. My APPROCH
I adopt a documentary-style approach, focusing on capturing unposed and natural interactions among family members. I encourage the family to be themselves, engaging in activities they enjoy or simply going about their routine. This will help create a series of images that tell a cohesive and authentic story.
3.LOCATION
For this type of experience I like to choose a location that holds significance for your family - it could be your home or a place where you often spend time together. Lifestyle in-home session hold important emotions and the familiarity of the location will contribute to a relaxed atmosphere, allowing for genuine and candid moments to unfold.
4.THE EXPERIENCE
I divide the 60 minutes session into different segments, allowing for a variety of moments to be captured:
10 minutes - Introduction and Warm up : I begin with some casual conversation to help the family members feel comfortable in front of the camera. If the moment is right, I also capture spontaneous interactions during this time.
20 minutes - Activities and Play : I encourage the family to engage in activities they enjoy together, whether it’s playing games, cooking, or enjoying a hobby. I will capture candid moment of laughter, interaction and genuine expressions.
10 minutes - Portraits : I take a few posed family portraits, but keep them relaxed and natural. I focus on capturing the unique personalities of each family member.
15 minutes - Story-time or Shared Moment : We create a specific moment for the family to share a story, read a book together or engage in a tradition. While I capture the emotions and connections during this focused time.
5 minutes - Closing Moments : I conclude the session by capturing any final spontaneous interactions or moments that arise, providing a natural and heartfelt conclusion to the session.
By focusing on storytelling and candid moments, this family session aims to create a series of images that not only showcase the physical likeness of the family members but also convey the emotional connections and unique narrative of your shared moments.
5.POST-PROCESSING
I maintain a light touch in post-processing to preserve authenticity of the candid moments while also creating a cohesive look throughout your gallery by having a consistent tone.
During the editing process we go through a culling step, where we get rid of blurry photos, bad poses or bad angles and such (which they are expected and we work counting on them, specially with kids) . Once you receive the gallery, you will be able to select the photos that you want to keep and be able to download (watermark free).
6.THE GALLERY
After our session, I will share some sneak peaks on my social media (if consented). And you will receive your gallery in the following 3 weeks. Your gallery will be delivered online, and will contain all edited photos from our session. We do an excellent job in providing all good photos in the gallery for you to choose.
